OpenRouter vs Requesty

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	OpenRouter Unified API across 300+ LLMs from many providers; one API key.	Requesty LLM routing gateway providing a single API across 400+ models with cost and reliability controls.
Category	routing	routing
Vendor type	commercial	commercial
Pricing	usage	usage
Strengths	+ Single API for hundreds of models + Easy A/B model swaps + Pay-as-you-go billing	+ Single API across 400+ models from 30+ providers + Routing strategies by cost, latency, and availability with automatic failover + Prompt caching and per-budget spend controls + Observability dashboards and governance such as RBAC and PII masking
Tradeoffs	− Pricing markup vs direct provider	− 5% markup on model costs versus calling providers directly − Proprietary, closed gateway that adds a hop in the request path
Used in stacks	0	0